In Europe, if you request the status of refugee, you cannot move to another country in the EU, not even if you have relatives or friends willing to take you in and sponsor you. You have to stay in the country where you place your request ( Read more... )

This month, boycott the commercial entertainment industry.  Buy your books, music, movies, and other goodies from independent producers.  Support crowdfunding and other alternatives to the corporate economy.  There is a banner for this on my LJ scrapbook.

Romance Writers Association has officially come out as homophobic and discriminatory, banning same-sex romances from their contest.  Okay, anyone who makes a contest can make up the rules for it.  But it's more than a little counterproductive for a genre  based organization to cut out part of its own content, just because it makes some people " ( Read more... )

The Arkh Project is building a video game featuring queer people and people of color as characters and designers. It has met the first funding goal for character design and is extending that campaign goal to keep the momentum going. JOB CREATOR!

This is a credible threat to the whitewashed gaming industry. Consequently someone complained about the ( Read more... )

One of my activist friends on Facebook, Terry Hancock, modified the Black March badge to include my message encouraging people to support independent creators.  Spend your entertainment budget on material that supports the kind of world you want to live in.  ( Full-size version in my LJ scrapbook.)

I've been disappointed by the recent collapse of Borders, which took Waldenbooks down with it, after they helped demolish the independent bookstores.  So now a lot of towns have no  bookstore, chain or otherwise.  I don't like this, and I've noticed a lot of other people expressing similar sentiments.  I'm not an entrepreneur, so starting a ( Read more... )

I'm on day 8 of my 10-Day countdown to the end of my Kickstarter campaign today, and wanted to share a few things ( Read more... )

Hullo everyone! My name is Gail Southworth and I'm an interactive designer and a freelance artist. I usually only do one big project crowdfunded project per year, even though I love working on them. While I don't have a lot of disposable income, I definitely love to donate when I can. I'm particularly interested in projects that work towards a ( Read more... )

Well, I did it.   After much fussing and fiddling, the on line book store is on line!

The transactions are handled through Google Payments, which actually is easier to use than PayPal, and the books are delivered in ZIP form as a download.

I presently have the first four novels up in PDF form, and hope to have them in ePub and Kindle by the end ( Read more... )

This crossed my desk today...

Brandon H. Bell About 950 Words

site: http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com

blog: http://nithska.blogspot.com

editors@fantastique-unfettered.com

Hail Caesar: Creative Commons and the Small Press

Brandon H. Bell

"*It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the
hungry-looking.*"

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